- From: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:54:33 +0200
- To: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
- Cc: Michael F Uschold <uschold@gmail.com>, semantic-web@w3.org
Hi Frank, Thanks for the feedback. I will expand the ship section in the next release following your suggestions. Currently, my focus was actually on cars, bikes, and recreational vehicles. I also thought about airplanes, but for the moment, the car sales industry is really the biggest opportunity for taking up linked data and GoodRelations. Martin On 30.08.2010, at 22:08, Frank Manola wrote: > Some aspects seem a bit problematic for use with ships, on the > assumption that you're really talking about buying and selling ships > (like tankers or container ships). The Wikipedia article on > "Tonnage" describes some of measurements you're likely to see > actually given for ships (different ones for different kinds of > ships, e.g., deadweight for tankers, displacement for warships). > The article on ship measurements at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Ship_measurements > is also useful (e.g., I don't see "draft" in the VSO ontology; > pretty important for ships). But who said semantics was supposed to > be simple? Good start anyway. > > > On Aug 30, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Michael F Uschold wrote: > >> Overall this ontology is just fine, highly suitable for its >> intended purpose. I do have one [hopefully] minor concern. Why is >> a kayak not a kind of a boat? The classification in this ontology >> goes like this: >
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